FILE- In this Feb. 22, 2015 file photo, Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. On Saturday, Oct. 14, 2016, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revoked Weinstein's membership. The decision, reached Saturday in an emergency session, comes in the wake of recent reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine that revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against him going back decades.(Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP, File)

Woody Allen (L) and producer Harvey Weinstein arrive on the red carpet at the Los Angeles Premiere of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" at the Mann Village Theatre on August 4, 2008 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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This combination photo shows Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2016, left, and his brother Bob Weinstein at the premiere of "Sin City," in Los Angeles on March 28, 2005. Harvey Weinstein was fired Sunday by the Weinstein Co., the studio he co-founded with his brother Bob, after a bombshell New York Times expose alleged decades of crude sexual behavior on his part toward female employees and actresses. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this May 19, 2013, file photo, Alyssa Milano arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Thousands of women responded to Milano’s call on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2017, to tweet “me too” in order to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault following the recent revelation of decades of allegations of sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

WASHINGTON - MARCH 14: Harvey Weinstein and designer Georgina Chapman (R) arrive for a State Dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House on March 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. Cameron is on a three day official visit to Washington. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

US producer Harvey Weinstein poses with his wife Georgina Chapman as they arrive to the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California on February 28, 2016. / AFP / ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ (Photo credit should read ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 05: (L to R) Actor Russell Crowe, producer Harvey Weinstein and actress Renee Zellweger attend the after party for "Cinderella Man" held at the "I Granai" in the Hotel Cipriani on the sixth day of the 62nd Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2005 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Buena Vista International)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and producer Harvey Weinstein attend the TIME 100 Gala, TIME'S 100 Most Influential People In The World, cocktail party at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for TIME)

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A new report in the New York Times details the many ways that Harvey Weinstein’s “complicity machine” allowed him to command “enablers, silencers and spies” to keep his secrets about allegedly mistreating women and to court influential people in media and politics to burnish his image and help him stay in power.

Actresses Uzo Aduba, Julia Roberts and Lena Dunham appear on stage during the Hillary Victory Fund’s Stronger Together concert, a fundraiser in New York City reportedly organized by Harvey Weinstein. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Those influential people include Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as David J. Pecker, the chief executive at American Media Inc., which owns The National Enquirer. Pecker is also good friends with President Donald Trump, and both Weinstein and Trump were known in the tabloid industry as untouchable “F.O.P.’s,” the Times said. That is, friends of Pecker.

The disgraced movie mogul has been accused by 83 women, including actresses Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, of various forms of mistreatment, from harassment to rape, USA Today said. The allegations go back decades, with some accounts generating interest by police in Los Angeles, New York City and London. Weinstein has consistently said that none of his encounters with women involved “nonconsensual sex.”

The Times, which first reported on allegations against Weinstein on Oct. 5, published a new report on Wednesday describing the Weinstein “complicity machine” that allowed him to get away with so much for so long.

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“Some aided his actions without realizing what he was doing,” the report said. “Many knew something or detected hints, though few understood the scale of his sexual misconduct. Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way or remain silent.”

The report said these enablers included executives at his own company as well as top agents and managers across Hollywood who sent actresses to meet him alone at hotels and advised them to stay quiet when things went wrong.

Gwyneth Paltrow with then-first lady Hillary Clinton at the premiere of “Shakespeare in Love,” the 1998 film produced by Harvey Weinstein that won Paltrow an Academy Award for best actress. (Photo courtesy of Dianna Freed)

One of those actresses was Paltrow who told the Times that she rebuffed Weinstein’s advances when she was an up-and-coming young star. Since the Weinstein scandal broke, she has learned that Weinstein boasted that he had sex with her. In trying to coerce other women to have sex with him, he used Paltrow’s Academy Award-winning “First Lady of Miramax” prestige as proof that he could advance the careers of women who pleased him, she told the Times.

Meanwhile, among those who may not have known about Weinstein’s alleged misconduct is Hillary Clinton — even though her presidential campaigns reportedly received warnings about him in 2008 and 2016 from loyal supporters as well as from magazine editor Tina Brown and actress Lena Dunham.

Weinstein had long been a generous donor to Hillary and Bill Clinton. He donated $10,000 to Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund after he was impeached in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and he served as a fundraiser and informal adviser during Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. He also was an early backer of her presidential bids.

Weinstein’s political activities, which included consistent support to former President Barack Obama, “boosted his image as a man with friends in high places and close ties to the country’s leading female politician,” according to the report.

While Dunham told the Times that she remains loyal to Hillary Clinton, she also said she was troubled by the producer’s visible presence during Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, which ran on a pro-woman, feminist platform.

Dunham said she had heard some of the stories others had heard about Weinstein. In March of 2016, Dunham said, she warned the campaign. She told Clinton’s deputy communications director Kristina Schake: “I just want you to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point.”

She added, “I think it’s a really bad idea for him to host fundraisers and be involved because it’s an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault.”

Based on stories she had heard about Weinstein’s “sleaziness with women,” Brown said she also warned Clinton’s inner circle about him back in 2008.

It appears that their warnings went unheeded because Weinstein helped organize a star-packed fundraiser for Clinton weeks before the election: an evening on Broadway with Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway and others.

Though Clinton’s communications director Nick Merrill, Schake and Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said they didn’t recall receiving any warnings about Weinstein — including reports about rape or other forms of sexual misconduct — from Dunham or Brown.

In a statement, Merrill said, “We were shocked when we learned what he’d done. It’s despicable behavior, and the women that have come forward have shown enormous courage. As to claims about a warning, that’s something staff wouldn’t forget.”

The Times said that Hillary and Bill Clinton dined with Weinstein and David Boies, his attorney and trusted adviser, at a restaurant in Harlem days after Clinton’s loss in the election.

Soon after, Clinton and Weinstein began planning a TV documentary about her campaign, according to the report. Discussions about the project continued for months, with Clinton’s lawyer exchanging emails with Weinstein about potential European buyers as recently as Sept. 28.

A week later, the Times published its bombshell report on Weinstein’s alleged misconduct. The New Yorker followed with another explosive story a few days later.

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Clinton came under criticism for waiting nearly a week to respond to the allegations about her friend and top political supporter. When she finally issued a statement, she said: “I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by the women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”

While Dunham doesn’t believe Weinstein’s misconduct reports ever reached Clinton herself, she remains troubled that he was so involved in her campaign. “A year and a half ago, on one of the most progressive campaigns in history, this wasn’t a problem,” Dunham said.

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.